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Re: The people who create video game music are underrated!

Unfortunately like most things in games now, the testament to how good music is is how much you don't notice it, above anything else anyway. That said, new game Bioshock has an incredibly rich score, and meshes future with 1930s.

Bend me, break me, anyway you need me
as long as I want you baby, it's alright.

Re: The people who create video game music are underrated!

Videogames in general are underrated. I mean they are rarely considered art unlike movies, or music when a lot of effort is put in them. I think stuff like Video Games Live or Smash Bros. Live demonstrate how videogame music is just as beautiful and can cause deep emotions on people.

Re: The people who create video game music are underrated!

Nobuo Uematsu gets a load of credit for his music, but true, outside the gaming community nobody knows him. Square have been using vocal tracks since...FF8? so i guess they wanna try and make their music mainstream by including vocals. Hey it's worked in Japan.

Re: The people who create video game music are underrated!

i have to agree with the above comment about bioshock, the musical score is top grade and fits the game vveeryy well. The final fantasy series has had great music over all, along with silent hill and metal gear solid. The latter of which gave me one of my favorite songs of all time,"the best is yet to come" from metal gear solid 3. I truly wish more people than just fans could hear some of the good music in these games.

Re: The people who create video game music are und

IMO Final Fantasy VIII has the best soundtrack out of the franchise, and Final Fantasy VII is a very close second.

Umm, how could you ever forget FF VI with the Maria and Draco opera?

I feel that (FFVI) was the most groundbreaking in terms of Nobuo Uematsu's music prowess in the series.

Just listen to the opera and tell me otherwise.

Of course with VIII, you have Uematsu's foray into the 'pop' world. You could tell that he lost his musical control from then onward, which is why he stopped making music for square after X. Not saying those games were bad musically (or doubt Uematsu's talent), but when try to bottle creativity, it shows.

Besides that, I am a huge fan of the DDR series (musically and playing also). I have 100+ songs on my ipod from DDR/ITG/Mungyo. In fact, the song nijiiro has instilled the inspiration to get a tattoo of it. Some day I will.

Best Game Music Tracks

What do you guys think are the best video game music tracks? Here are my top 3, track title and game that it's from:

1. Godsibb - Xenosaga III (AMAZING TRACK, you have to hear it somehow), here it is performed live, the composer for the game is Yuki Kajiura, and the singer is Eri Ito:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZgPbmbvtGc"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZgPbmbvtGc[/ame]

2. Aria de Mezzo Caraterre - Final Fantasy VI

3. Fatal Fight - Xenosaga II (actually it's a tie between this one and the Sakura #4, Gentle String Version, of that same game).

Re: Best Game Music Tracks

My favorite soundtracks are final fantasy VIII, X , Silent hill 2, 3, and 4 i love all the gloomy songs!. and the Katamari Damacy's soundtrack its awesome!.
Its difficult to choose a song out of them but if i have to choose one ill say....
letter from the lost days from the Silent hill 3 soundtrack.

Re: The people who create video game music are underrated!

I like pretty much anything by Jeremy Soule. He seems to be one of the few non-Japanese composers who gets noticed.

To the comment that only gamers pay attention to videogame music:
Of course! Who else actually hears it? I've managed to get non-gamers hooked when they heard game soundtracks playing in my car, but otherwise how would they know that it even existed?

Re: The people who create video game music are underrated!

I love Tekken, Street Fighter, and some SNK themes as well. However, they generally sound very videogamey to me. Anything that's from a stage tends to be short. Without the experiences to go with it, I think it can be harder for other people to get into the tracks.

Longer tracks from newer games (past 16-bit) like things from Final Fantasy, Chrono Cross and other games where you are in the stage for a while are more accessible to non-gamers in my opinion. They sound more like regular music to me, whereas earlier tracks always sound like they came from older video games.

Re: The people who create video game music are underrated!

Hell yes :O

I first heard that song in this trailer. When I fought Vanitas as Ven I thought, "OMG THAT'S THE EPIC SONG". Final Mix looks awesome. That really sucks that you can play as a heartless, fight monstro, and fight the Armored Figure (Although his identity is obvious)

Oh and this is a good one too. This plays during the final episode. It's a combination of destati+fate of the unknown

Re: The people who create video game music are underrated!

I love love LOVE game music.

A lot of you have already mentioned some great songs I already know, and some I didn't, so I just want to share some of my favorites.

Love a lot of the Chrono series music. Chrono Trigger had some amazing masterpieces, but my favorite has to be Chrono Cross' opening theme "Time's Scar". It's so atypical from Squaresoft music of the time, I really love all the folk instruments and somewhat Celtic flair:
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhfvhYkrCW0[/ame]

Also, got to play a game which was one of Nobuo Uematsu's few non-FF games, Lost Odyssey. Lots of great themes in this game, with a more understated tone, where his FF themes tend to be very epic and grand. Sheena Easton does all the vocal work for the music in this game and really shines in the two vocal songs. I especially like the song "Eclipse of Time", which runs through the end credits, very simple and beautiful:
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3dkTnb-LR0[/ame]

I wish the Bust a groove franchise had lived on. The first game in the series had some amazing songs. Especially Kitty-N's theme, catchiest, best song ever!! Forget about Guitar Hero and all that shit, this is what music games started as:
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApbgxrPevaQ[/ame]

Re: The people who create video game music are underrated!

Originally Posted by Gomaki

I love love LOVE game music.

A lot of you have already mentioned some great songs I already know, and some I didn't, so I just want to share some of my favorites.

Love a lot of the Chrono series music. Chrono Trigger had some amazing masterpieces, but my favorite has to be Chrono Cross' opening theme "Time's Scar". It's so atypical from Squaresoft music of the time, I really love all the folk instruments and somewhat Celtic flair:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhfvhYkrCW0

That's one of my favourite songs from a game. The composer, Yasunori Mitsuda, has a habit of incorporating several different musical styles (even within a single game).

He also did Xenogears (among many others)

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GvpjwTM8p0[/ame]

I find this song from Baten Kaitos by Motoi Sakuraba interesting. It's very different from anything I've heard in other games.

Re: The people who create video game music are underrated!

Oh MAN! There are soooooooooooooooo many songs I don't know where to begin! Slowly but surely I'll post all I can think of but for now I'll start off with a few of my favorites and I have a lot of them lol In my opinion video game music is better than most music on the radio! ^_^

This one is a cool mix of Raise Thy Sword from Soul Calibur 2:
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LQqUtB-BoA[/ame]

Re: The people who create video game music are und

Originally Posted by icefan

I enjoyed the above videos posted by maxpowr9. My favorite from the Final Fantasy Series is "To Zanarkand" posted below:

I was hoping someone would bring this up. I loved Final Fantasy X's music. One of my all-time favorites. Every time I hear that song, I still imagine Tidus starting with, "Listen to my story. This...may be our last chance."

I always loved the Hymn of the Fayth as well, especially in the Kilika Sending scene:

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I'm surprised no one has mentioned the music from Guild Wars yet. That game has some beautiful instrumental music. The Eye of the North theme is awesome (its the song on the current GW log in screen I believe). HOwever, my favorite music was the song they played on the log in screen from the original, Prophecies campaign. It was a beautiful solo violin playing, and iunfortunately I have not been able to find that music yet.

Originally Posted by JonHCA

I was hoping someone would bring this up. I loved Final Fantasy X's music. One of my all-time favorites. Every time I hear that song, I still imagine Tidus starting with, "Listen to my story. This...may be our last chance."

I always loved the Hymn of the Fayth as well, especially in the Kilika Sending scene:

Ugh, now I want to play that game again. Such great memories.

FFX has some great music too. I love thr Hymn of the Fayth as well, and love that particular scene.

Re: The people who create video game music are underrated!

Sonic is a great game! The bonus stage to Sonic 2 and the Carnival Night zone are two of my favorites....very well I shall post some of my favorite Sonic music for your enjoyment brace yourselves now!

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH_MCPcjxP0[/ame]

I thought it was cool when they played that as I was zipping around trying to hit Perfect Chaos in the head.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9zZus_1_ag&feature=related[/ame]

Shadow was so badass in this game

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jw6KRkx0vNg&feature=related[/ame]

I like the song...the game was..meh..it was ok

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyoMQg3d5cs[/ame]

Naturally we can't forget the classics this is one of my favorites.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYxlqTpZ-24&feature=related[/ame]

There's speculation that MJ had a hand in Sonic 3's music composition. I do hear the similarities but Idk, I'm not sure...what do you all think?

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHwHiymSojk&feature=related[/ame]

Hotness ^_^

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_oUfB6-JF4[/ame]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4L4TSrDB4M[/ame]

That boss was a bitch when I was younger...he's still a bitch now lol But the theme is badass

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-gocswLwsc&feature=related[/ame]

EPIC!!

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZzwIpbA3Go&feature=related[/ame]

Eerily cool lol

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzXwutv0yy8&feature=related[/ame]

Still one of my favorites!

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpU5640iE5k&feature=related[/ame]

So nostalgic

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl6kjAkVw_s&feature=related[/ame]

OK...ok my last one for the time being....I PROMISE! I got carried away by all the awesomeness! lol I sound like a complete nerd but that's ok. Such sweet memories. Thankfully I have these games in my xbox live arcade and I think I'll go start new files and beat them all again ^_^

Re: The people who create video game music are underrated!

This one would be my favorite from Sonic:

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhHa7ph5GLg[/ame]

I saw Sonic 2 at toys r us a few years back. It was paused at the Aquatic Ruins level. I started playing it and I was positively dumbstruck when I heard this song. It had probably been 10 years or more since I had last heard this song (or played this game).

But this one is my all time Favorite:

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKjbLVK2jlY[/ame]

It was such treasure finding the hidden track while searching for songs on my PS one games.

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul? - John Keats

Re: The people who create video game music are underrated!

I've grown rusty with fighting games these days but I will never forget what the Namco sound team was working with during the days of Tekken 2 and Soul Blade (or depending on region, Soul Edge, predecessor to Soul Calibur).

To this day, I'm impressed with the entire Tekken 2 soundtrack but these three especially shine.

Re: The people who create video game music are underrated!

Originally Posted by Gomaki

I love love LOVE game music.

A lot of you have already mentioned some great songs I already know, and some I didn't, so I just want to share some of my favorites.

Love a lot of the Chrono series music. Chrono Trigger had some amazing masterpieces, but my favorite has to be Chrono Cross' opening theme "Time's Scar". It's so atypical from Squaresoft music of the time, I really love all the folk instruments and somewhat Celtic flair:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhfvhYkrCW0

I wish the Bust a groove franchise had lived on. The first game in the series had some amazing songs. Especially Kitty-N's theme, catchiest, best song ever!! Forget about Guitar Hero and all that shit, this is what music games started as:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApbgxrPevaQ

YES! I love the music in Chrono Cross and the piano versions of Chrono Trigger. I really did enjoy Final Fantasy VI, and seeing the live version of the opera made me smile